Jake Robson and Adam Summerly will join Morrison & Foerster as partners as the firm continues to expand its recently opened Singapore office. Messrs. Robson and Summerly, who have been based in Singapore for eight and 14 years respectively, are veteran deal advisers with substantial experience handling inbound, outbound and intra-regional transactions across South and Southeast Asia.

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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised KrisEnergy on its US$215 million IPO in Singapore. KrisEnergy is an oil and gas exploration and production company based in Singapore.

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RHTLaw Taylor Wessing is pleased to announce the addition of Mr Gerard Ng as a Partner in our Banking and Finance Practice with effect from 15 July 2013.

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RHTLaw Taylor Wessing is pleased to announce the addition of Mr Nizam Ismail as a Partner in our Corporate and Securities Practice with effect from 1 July 2013.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce Brad Roach will join the firm’s Singapore office as a partner.  Roach joins from Hogan Lovells, where he led the oil and gas practice in Southeast Asia.  At Gibson Dunn, Roach will continue his energy, infrastructure and project finance practice.

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International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed Arun Balasubramanian to become co-head of the firm’s India group, working alongside Pratap Amin, Chairman of Freshfields’ India group.

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Allen & Overy is advising The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited (Dai-ichi) on its IDR3.3 trillion (approximately USD337 million) acquisition of a 40 percent stake in PT Panin Life (Panin Life) of Indonesia.

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Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Lend Lease Singapore on the successful launch of the Lend Lease JEM Partners Fund. The fund has been established to acquire Lend Lease’s 25% equity interest in JEM, a significant retail and office asset in Singapore which opened for trading on Saturday. Herbert Smith Freehills also advised on the sale of the asset to the fund for around S$227 million (approx. A$189 million).

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Duane Morris & Selvam LLP (DM&S) is pleased to announce that Ung Gim Sei has joined DM&S’s constituent firm Selvam LLC in Singapore. The addition of Ung as a director grows the capacity of the corporate practice in Singapore, particularly in intellectual property matters. He brings with him a wealth of experience, with more than 10 years of private practice in Singapore.

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Mr. R. Ravindran joined as a Partner of Colin Ng & Partners LLP (CNP) on 5 June 2013 in its Dispute Resolution and Corporate Advisory practice of the firm.

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